Pitching horse manure and cleaning up after six dogs on her Colora spread is how sexy Pam Grier stays fit. The 70's star of such blaxplotation classics as Foxy Brown and Coffy is in Berlin promoting her sensational comeback vehicle, Quentin Tarantino's competition contender Jackie Brown, in which she plays the title role.

"Quentin is my Oscar," she says, tossing her reddish brown curls. "He invested years of his life to write a script for me. That is the greatest gift."

Jackie Brown has certainly given her career a new lease of life. But besides fielding new offers, she has had her own production company for 20 years and is developing several projects. "I've been acquiring books when nobody else wanted them and now they're really valuable because there's a market for them." One is about a black female stage coach driver and the other involves a black Russian politican, daughter of African-Americans who immigrated to the former Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Never setting her sights on an acting career, it was something she fell into during her college days as a way to earn tuition fees. "My family is still disappointed I didn't become a physician," she says.

An outspoken feminist, she says she had to teach her male co-stars a few things back in the early days of the women's movement. "I was one of the actresss who brought it to the screen," she says referring to the strong females she played. "I exemplified what was going on all across America."

Amazed at how much old posters from those films now sell for, she's made sure to get plenty from her latest to take back home. Lets hope she won't have to wait another 20 years to collect some more. Owen Levy